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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"now when I get in I just want to veg with a book as I'm mentally spent." That's me. I think it's age but a job where I am more active and/or outside would help for sure. When I worked as mechanical engineer I
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Wouldn't that also be pretty much a bomb if the pressure got relieved? I don't know how to do the math but 1E6 atm seems a lot of energy (is it potential energy?) that has to go somewhere.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
“but the government will probably take credit for that like usual.” It doesn’t really matter as long as things are improving. Go ahead and credit the free market if it makes you feel better.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I guess best would be if every can of soda had a picture of the amount of sugar in it. That may illustrate things nicely and understandably. Most people don't really connect numbers and measurements to reality.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I accept that national defense is not a profit center, neither are highways. But they are good for everybody so it's ok that the taxpayer pays for them. The same may be true for TARP but I don't like to hear that TARP made profit
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Instead of getting into a new weapons race I would prefer more effort into negotiating an international agreement to not weaponize space. The stance of the US in the past few years seemed to be to produce more weapons than anybody else and
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
If TARP was such a great deal why did the government have to do it? Why didn't private investors jump in and support the banks?
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
When I was a kid we had a horse at a farm where they also had some goats. I can totally see the Brenda story in those goats. They have a talent for mischief and are very smart and brave in their own way. Definitely a lot of fun if you have
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Agreed. Sometimes I feel like I am wasting my life solving business problems I don’t really care about and nobody close to me understands even remotely.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I agree. Metric makes it much easier to compare things.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
“Putting warnings on things and measuring the change would be a great place to start.” From what I see people see the warnings and calories counts and they know that these foods are not good. But they really don’t seem to know how to eat r
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I have done that too but somehow the habit seems to always come back. As it seems to have happened to you.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Isn’t nitrogen cooling much easier to achieve than this level of pressure?
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Do these warnings actually do anything? In CA almost anything has a cancer warning. I don’t even look at them anymore. To me these warnings are a way to say “we are doing something “ but I doubt they really have an effect. Considering how
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
There are other ways to deal with this besides async. It would have been fine if they had added async but you can’t just remove the synchronous functions and expect people to port existing apps with perfectly fine multithreaded code to asyn
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"Would there have been any way to see this coming?" Stuff like this is pretty much guaranteed to happen in places that sit on a lot of data. The only question is whether it get noticed and then published.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They are dissimilar enough to make a port of a large app very difficult.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think one thing is clear: In the 90s Congress + President didn't fuck it up whereas current Congress + President decided to increase deficits in good times which will make it very hard to respond to any downturn.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That's why we need balance.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
For good reason.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Agreed. Companies should do their best within a framework that’s defined by the population through politics. They shouldn’t create that framework.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It has to come from politics. Capitalism unregulated will pretty much always lead to a few accumulating more and more and increasing their power.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They could make adjustments to the retirement age or benefits that are in line with funding. Or change the funding to be in line with the promised benefits. Instead they choose to underfund and let the next generation deal with it.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"I don't think it's unreasable to expect people to save enough to cover then between their age of retirement to say 70 or 75. Then let the insurance kick in after that." I would like that too. It's much easier to sa
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Don't forget that Clinton balanced the budget during a good economy while the current administration even raised the deficit in a good economy without any plan for ever reducing it besides a miracle.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
that's fine but you shouldn't allow Congress to mess it up completely as some ideologues want to do.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Voters have been trained to listen to soundbites and not look into the real facts. Most news media has perpetuated this. Instead of reporting facts they talking heads yell at each other for hours.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
You should be worried about both. A crisis in either of them will cause a lot of suffering.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Yes, until they change their mind ;)
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
WPF is based on DirectX and does it own rendering. This may make a Linux implementation possible but I am not sure. Realistically it's probably deeply entangled with Windows.

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